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Case

Power Supply

Details

Date Published

June 6, 2018

Date Built

May 16, 2018

CPU Clock Rate

2.8 GHz

GPU Core Clock Rate

1.708 GHz

GPU Effective Memory Clock Rate

10 GHz

Description

My buddy finally convinced me to take the plunge in to PC gaming. He created a monster. I had a lot of fun building this, researching and adding parts over the past few months. I literally had no idea what to do but after watching tons of youtube videos and my buddy patiently answering my questions on the phone, I have a flipping awesome gaming rig.

I'm not joking when I say I had no idea what to do. When I started I didn't even know what the names of parts were. Google, Reddit and this website were also my friends.

I was putting my list together one piece at a time. Ingesting all the information and reviews I could. I did get lucky picking my case. I randomly selected one from the list and the first one I picked was the Fractal Design Meshify C Dark TG. I freaking love this case and it turned out to be a really popular one!

I also got lucky because so far everything has worked on the first go! No RMA yet!

I know this PC is way more than I need as my first build but I knew that if I skimped out I would soon regret it. I wanted this to be pretty future proof for at least a little while.

If you see something I did wrong or could have done better, please let me know. I'm very open to constructive feedback.

The comments are kinda silly. If you want a CPU upgrade, get an i7-8700k. It's $340 and is currently the king of gaming for LGA1151. if you want a GPU upgrade, get a 1080ti; theyre finally back at MSRP, and the 11 series won't come out for a while. Or wait for the 11 series, although for the price of a 1080ti youll probably get a more powerful 11 series card, its all a matter of when they come out. Great build!

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What a nice build. Don't listen to the people who are saying, you should just sell your CPU and get a new one and that stuff, overclocking isn't that huge of a preformence boost in most games to be 100% honest. I love the look and that thing should run cooooooooooool with that AIO. Great job on your build!

Even better! I would go into the parts list for this build and manually enter the prices you bought the parts at, it would give people a better understanding of the overall price of the build. When you leave it up to "lowest price setting" like you have it on now, sometimes the price can skyrocket (like it did for GPUs) and it can totally skew the overall price of the build.

It's a huge difference. Something I want to make clear though, you made excellent choices for your parts, don't let the following data make you regret your buys, at all. But your 2.5" SSD has this speed Max Sequential ReadUp to 550 MBpsMax Sequential WriteUp to 520 MBps4KB Random ReadRandom (QD1): Up to 10,000 IOPS
Random (QD32): Up to 98,000 IOPS4KB Random WriteRandom (QD1): Up to 42,000 IOPS
Random (QD32): Up to 90,000 IOPS and for example the new best cost/performance 500Gb M.2 drive out right now, the WD BLACK PCIe has this speed Max Sequential ReadUp to 3400 MBpsMax Sequential WriteUp to 2500 MBps4KB Random ReadUp to 410,000 IOPS4KB Random WriteUp to 330,000 IOPS Now it is more expensive for the same amount of storage, but it is arguably four times faster. The money question is, will you notice the difference? Hmm yeah probably a slight different, files would load faster, games would run quicker, but like barely.

SirHalpin is right. The difference between an NVME and a SATA drive, although there, barely. Yea, they do have way different reads and writes, but that's just what the drive can do. Right now, the only real reason is with video files. And unless that's your job, a SATA (2.5/M+B) will do the job just fine.

Amazing looking build mate. I love the minimalistic and clean look. I've just ordered this case and the same AIO. I was going to order RGB fans and LED strips but after seeing yours it looks way better without so I wont bother lol.

With the amount of money you put into it, you probably should have gotten an unlocked processor, so you can overclock. You bought a watercooler system and a dope-*** motherboard but your CPU is not capable of being overclocked. A core i5-7600K for example would probably fit better in that powerful system. Note the K at the end of the cpu model. It means you can overclock that chip - Intel CPUs without a K at the end can't be overclocked at all.

It's not a big deal, you're not really losing out on THAT much performance, but with the money you spent on a system that can handle it, I'm wondering if you made a deliberate choice not to overclock because you're a bit new to this or if it was an oversight. I believe that motherboard has some auto-overclocking features that would make it really easy for anyone to do it, too.

I appreciate the compliments and the advice! It was definitely an oversight brought on from ignorance. When I first started my build I set out to only build a light gaming PC since i've only played consoles my whole life. I purchased all these parts spread out over several months and the CPU/PSU were the first things I bought lol. I changed my thought process on what I wanted out of this build about halfway thgough. It's all good though. This CPU is handling everything beautifully right now.

I pretty much play BF1 mostly. Got a 10 month old daughter so haven't had much time to try out anything else on PC. Any recommendations?

I've been playing Vermintide 2, Cities Skylines, Overwatch and some CS:GO once in a while but I've been playing CS for at least 15 years now on and off. I wouldn't recommend anyone just start playing CS in 2018 lol

Honestly don't worry about the CPU unless you randomly see a really, really good deal on a K chip and feel like diving into overclocking, and don't mind the hassle of offloading/doing something with the 8400 at that point. Your PC will crush most games for years to come.

I wouldn't get the 8700 if I where you. I would much rather buy a 8600k or a 8400 and get your self a better GPU like a 1070 or 1070ti. But, if you've not bough all the parts yet and can wait for a few months, I think that the new GTX 11 series of cards is coming out in aug. But, do what ever you want, spend it how you want to spend it, no one else can make you do anything you don't want!